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Paul Virilio's War and Cinema

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Affect of Close Ups

There's something affective about the close up. I probably don't pay enough attention to it depends on depends on the movie and why I'm watching. You might not see the direct relationship that really is talking about in this kind of Dialectical way. It's sort of hand cranked right the way that like an old camera would sort of have that hand crank mechanism. And the film like even a singular shot right it shares the language of a gunshot. Which is kind of a strange it's very strange how that you wonder how does something like that become embedded within. A totally different you know I mean cinema and war from a common sense point of view.

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